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Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Book Lovers' Quiz - November 2011

I regularly team up with fellow blogger and all round bibliophilic good egg Norfolk Bookworm to host a book quiz at the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library.

For
those who can't be there, those who just like testing their quizzing
acumen, and those wanting to test the water before booking, here are the
questions. (Answers are in white below the question: highlight the -
apparently - blank space to see them)

Enjoy! And good luck.

Round 1: ‘All the
World is a birthday cake – so take a piece but not too much.’

George Harrison

1) At the
start of which book is the main character about to celebrate his eleventyfirst birthday?

A: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2) “Doest
thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?” are
lines from which Shakespeare play?

A: Twelth Night

3) Which
Pulitzer Prize winning poet said “a diplomat is a man who always remembers a
woman’s birthday but never remembers her age?

A: Robert Frost

4) Which
Australian outlaw is the narrator of Peter Carey’s 2001 Book Prize winning
novel?

A: Ned Kelly

5)
Geraldine Brooks’ 2001 novel Year of
Wonder is about which devastating epidemic?

A: The 1665/66 Plague

6) Which
literary bear entertains his guests at his own party with a series of magic
tricks – all of which go horribly wrong?

2)Which
Edith Wharton novel opens at Grand Central Station in September? (It was a
fairly recent film with Gillian Anderson)

A: Edith Wharton

3)Tove
Jansson’s autumn book about the Moomins is set in which month?

A:
November

4)Which
comic book series follows the story of a resurrected Guy Fawkes?

A: V for Vendetta

5)Who
or what is Fawkes in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series?

A: A phoenix

6)Which
author, who wrote the award winning Graveyard
Book, celebrates his birthday today?

A: Neil Gaiman

7)Which
First World War poet wrote ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’?

A: Wilfred Owen

8)Life
is defined as “a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay” in which
dictionary?

A: The Devil’s Dictionary

9)The
Hunt for Red October was released in cinemas in April 1990, but who wrote the
book it is loosely based on?

A: Tom Clancy

10)Which American author more famous
for his dystopian and science fiction novels wrote The Halloween Tree – a
children’s fantasy tale where 8 friends travel through time and space
experiencing Halloween in different times and cultures as they try to rescue
their friend?

A: Ray Bradury

Table Round 1
(total of 20 points)

Only Connect
Connecting Wall

(based on the
popular BBC4 quiz)

This
Connecting Walls consist of 16 clues.

You
must:

1
– Sort the 16 clues into four connected groups of four

2
– State what connects each of those four groups

Although
some groups might appear to have more than four possible answers, there is only
one configuration that allows all clues to be sorted into four groups of four.
This is what you are looking for.